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Jason Miller, 2004-12-01

Trust with hardware vendors for open source systems is becoming a one-way street, where in exchange for support they offer a closed source binary solution with no provision to audit security.

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Closed Source Hardware 2004-12-07
Jason V. Miller (Author)
"The firmware files do not run in the host operating system (BSD, Linux, etc.). To those operating systems, the firmware is data, not executable code. That data is transferred to the target device; it executes in the device."

Again, this (firmware) is a different issue. I'm discussing a binary HA...

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